The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-02

He Discusses Holiday Pieasures-Why He
Has Been Silent So Long.

He Discusses Holiday Pieasures-Why He
Has Been Silent So Long.
Special to tho indianapolis Journal.
NEW YoRK, Jan IA great many persons
have asked why nothing is heard from the Ger
man barber near the Cooper Institute. 1t is
year since he mas beer interviewed There is 4
reason for his silence and this Christmas-New
Years season brings it to mind.
''GrisInas is played oud for me" he says; II
would rather got der spinal COMPLAINT than hear
word aboud Sandy Claws. will tole you hoN
dot vas alretty. Last year, ehoost pefore Girls
mas, my eedle daughter vos nit me here in der
back uf der shop She would sit py me and ash
questions vich would knock der stufing from
Philadelphia lawyer oud, und would try to an
swer her SO dot she should not see how pig fool
vos-like n negro glerchyman drying to oxblain
der Bible. But vos happy uf could choost sit
und look at her. Her eyes were pig. und piue,
und deep like windows in der soul uf an angel:
her hair vos golden und her shkin yos fair like
der leaf uf light rose. We we're choost like "
couple uf shildren togedher. so dot whenever We
| made too much noises by der house my wife would
say
".Vot can do nit der two uf you! Bote uf
| you ought to get der same whipping
Der consequence uf dot vos she couldn't lick
me. SO bote uf US got off nit . chawing. Den
comes der day behind last Grisnas upa Kadv ia
blayng der sdreet outside. Qnck, like light
ming comes scream, und from der houses come
tumbling der men, vimmen and shildren vot got
always some one elses peezuess to dake Of.
! 1t is Kady. She has been on dop of bile ul
lumber, and now der bile uf lumber is on dop uf
| her. am choost in time to see der last blanks
! lifted avay, und couple of men are dragging he's
! oud alretty.
"Ack Got She is more vhiter now as der
snow. excepting pood WHICH drickles owt
| of her mouth. Dem men dake her in a leedl&
shop und lay her der counter on top. Her head
| is baced a box OF dolls, der same vot she had
| promised me should buy for her Grsmas. Her
! feet vos on der same chumppg chack vich sna
had been safng her pennies up to gif to a leedle
playmate Der store is crowded nit beopes. +
push dem aside like dust from der front Nv q
broom.
q 'Kady. Kadyr screamed, Don't you know
your poor olt farder aretty!
But she could not know nodings any more by
dis world, for she vos dead.
''Choost dot time comes a woman up NIT a
nose plue like a Japanese cup and TO me she
| says: Your shild, ehf -
~ don't know whose sne is now. sayk
She used to been mine
| " Y on should be dankfu she yos tooken away
from dis sinful world oud. she sayt.
i chumped almost dct vooinan's troat down,
vos mat
"'Dankfulr l screamed Dankfu2 Don't
| talk some moro like dot TO me or will harS OF
| und-und-let you know vot / dink of such
| nuisance winners like you. Not do you mean
| by insulting der common sense of man chooss
when he looses der insite Nv his heart outl Git
away or / shall mako two funerals out uf vonA
| Il vos fool to got myselluf so excited, bus
vot kind uf mbus idea is dot yich shall ask 4
| man choost yhen he stands his dead shild along
side uf he don't feel like brass band on picnic
alretty, because she has had her fahby leete
life smashed out by .ousard feet M lumber
and he sees der world grow dark around him
like coal hole
That is why the barber kept silent q year and
who shall say no had not good reason.
| JULIAN RALrp.